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We hear the term "Cloud Computing" being bandied about as some type of slogan proclaiming modernization or technological advancement. It is hip, and everyone is joining the fray. So what exactly is Cloud Computing?

Reducing the overhead cost in running a data centre and making it efficient to run is a common business concern. Brocade gives some tips and strategies on how you can save dollars and improve efficiencies.

As data center managers prepare for the New Year, they should consider “reinventing” their infrastructure the same way many people reinvent themselves on Jan. 1 by beginning an exercise program, quitting smoking, or testing a new hairstyle. Particularly as 2009 brought a whirlwind of new trends and the products to support them, this is a good time to take a hard look in the mirror, and reassess the technology infrastructure, and decide on a path to data center transformation.

IT executives are constantly on the lookout on how best to manage their rapid data growth and, at the same time, keep expenses down. If storage hardware is the suggested alternative, it immediately conjures up an image of cost increases in areas of data management, protection process and even data center operations in the minds of most IT executives.

Establishing appropriate safeguards has always been recognized as an important part of data processing.

CIOs are frustrated in their inability to respond to business needs because the underlying IT infrastructure constrains choice, slows response, and limits their ability to manage change. To enable greater IT agility, organizations need to create dynamic IT infrastructures that can easily adapt to changing business requirements, by implementing Application Delivery Controllers that can unify application delivery and WAN delivery services.

RAID is not 100% foolproof because multiple hard disks can fail. I recently touched base with Bill Margeson, CEO, President and Co-Founder of CBL Data Recovery Technologies, on the subject of RAID, reliability and how companies in Asia plan their disaster recovery practices.

IT executives are constantly on the lookout on how best to manage their rapid data growth and, at the same time, keep expenses down. Dipesh Patel, Senior Product Marketing Manager at CommVault shows you how.

Storage virtualization for the sake of storage virtualization is just not enough these days. Being able to pool heterogeneous resources and migrate data from point A to point B while the application is up and running is pretty cool, but what businesses really need are complete solutions – solutions that not only provision storage more efficiently, but that can virtualize, protect, migrate, dedupe, encrypt, replicate, recover, and archive any data source in real-time via policy.

Today’s backup and recovery solutions now offer disk-based technologies, continuous data protection, quick bare metal restore and granular recovery of critical applications as well as management and monitoring tools to reduce backup administration time and effort.